Music
Jayna Morgan & the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band, Mistletoe & Stockings (11th Commandments Records)
What Morgan brings to Frenchmen Street—classic traditional swing music—is all captured mostly successfully on Mistletoe & Stockings. Pianist and flutist Meghan Swartz did nearly all of the arrangements, which are […]
Travis Matte, Old Time Cajun Songs (Mhat Productions)
Along with Jason Frey in Lagniappe, Travis Matte was an integral part of the outstanding À la Vieille Manière album that notched several CFMA Awards in 2001. That was Matte’s […]
Soul Avenger, The Cash Route (Independent)
“Introducing the most critically acclaimed musical masterpiece of the century!” an anonymous and appropriately portentous voice announces at the beginning of this, the debut sampler of sorts from local hip-hop […]
Barry Cuda, New World Blues Roots (Barry Cuda Music)
Pianist Barry Cuda is a longtime fixture on the Key West scene and has pounded out thousands of gigs at Sloppy Joe’s and the like. Lately his career has taken […]
Bipolaroid, Twin Language (Get Hip)
A few years ago, an album titled Unknown Mystery ’60s Group stirred up some notice in garage-rock collectors’ circles. It was released as an unearthed demo by a band whose […]
The Planet D Nonet featuring Michael Ray, Rays of the Sunday (Eastlawn Records)
Fans of Sun Ra—the legendary keyboardist, composer, arranger and Arkestra leader who left the planet on May 30, 1993—remain appreciative that his music continues to be vital through the love […]
Earl Long, Term Two (ShamGORILla Records)
Give this new vinyl release a spin while alone on a stormy night and you’ll scare yourself to sleep. In a good way. Such is the touch of seasoned experimental […]
Earl Poole Ball, Pianography (Tin Tube Tunes)
Mr. Honky Tonk Piano, a.k.a. Earl Poole Ball, left his native Mississippi in 1961 to find fame and fortune, eventually landing a two-decade stint with Johnny Cash before moving in […]
K. Jones & the Benzie Playboys, Oh Yeah (Hive Hill Records)
Zydeco musicians are tough critics when it comes to bestowing praise upon their peers, let alone out-of-state practitioner such as K. Jones & the Benzie Playboys. But as Joe Hall […]
Myles Weeks, Sense of Self (Independent)
Only a jazzman would promise “a collection of compositions that tell the story of my life” on the inside jacket of his debut album—then hit you with seven instrumentals. Fair […]
